So
says a low-level IRS whistleblower who will testify on Capitol Hill tomorrow
morning. The Washington Post reports:
The chief counsel’s office for the Internal Revenue
Service, headed by a political appointee of President Obama, helped develop the
agency’s problematic guidelines for reviewing “tea party” cases, according to a
top IRS attorney. In interviews with congressional investigators, IRS lawyer
Carter Hull said his superiors told him that the chief counsel’s office, led by
William Wilkins, would need to review some of the first applications the agency
screened for additional scrutiny because of potential political activity.
Previous accounts from IRS employees had shown that Washington IRS officials
were involved in the controversy, but Hull’s comments represent the closest
connection to the White House to date. According to a partial transcript
released by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and
House Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the chief counsel’s office
also discussed using a template letter to ask questions about the groups’
activities, despite Hull’s warning that such a boilerplate approach would be
impractical.
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